Classes Offered for 2009

Digital Photography

Picassa 3

Excel - Level 1 & 2

Travel to Europe

PowerPoint

Ebay - buying & selling

Blogging

Shopping Online

Digital Scrapbooking

Word - Level 1 & 2

Classes are held in the Marshall-Putnam Extension Computer Lab located in the Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau building at 509 Front ST, Henry, IL

Class sizes are small and the pace is set based on the experience levels of the participants.

The lab is open to the public during regular business hours, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Class fees are distinguished between members and nonmembers. Members are one of the following:

◆Farm Bureau member

◆Registered 4-H Volunteer

◆Teacher in M-P school district using Ag in the Classroom or FNP programs

Register by sending the following to the

Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau at

PO Box 208

Henry, IL 61537

◆Name

◆Phone number

◆Class Name

◆Payment (must be recieved to received to reserve spot in class)

Class Details

Digital Photography

Tuesday, February 17

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

This class will teach you about your digital camera. Topics covered: handling the camera, settings, memory cards, and photo composition.

Presenter - Karl Ziegler

Fees $10m/$15nm

Editing Digital Photos using Picasa 3

Wednesday, February 18

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Picasa is a free photo editing program that has a lot of great features and photo effects. The class will teach how to organize, crop, eliminate red eye, touch up and apply effects. The program also includes the following capabilities: web albums, printing, Blog This, movie, and collage.

Presenter - Karl Ziegler

Fees $10m/$15nm

Excel - Level 1

Wednesday, March 11

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Excel is a spreadsheet program. The level one class will teach the terms, navigating the program, formatting text and cells, and using basic formulas.

Presenters - Josh Merdian and Anita Wilkinson

Fees $10m/$15nm

Excel - Level 2

Thursday, March 12

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Excel Level 1 or equivalent skills are prerequisite to this class. Topics in this class will be freezing rows and columns, split, zoom, hide, filter, copy worksheet, inserting rows & columns, inserting clip art, formatting cells, creating charts and much more.

Presenters - Josh Merdian and Anita Wilkinson

Fees $10m/$15nm

Travel to Europe

Saturday, April 25

9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Community recreation class. Small technology component related to travel web sites. Learn the best time to travel, getting the best fares, hotels vs. B&B's, going it alone vs. a tour, local cuisine, coping with the local currency & sightseeing in England & Italy. Enjoy European food samples.

Presenter - Rachael Mellen

Fees $ 30m/$35nm

PowerPoint

Wednesday, June 3

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Learn how to make slide show presentations that will WOW your audience. From awesome sales presentations to vacation or family slide show this workshop will teach you how to start!

Presenters - Tiffany Moodie & Anita Wilkinson

Fees $10m/$15nm

Ebay

Thursday, September 10

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Ever wanted to bid or sell at an online auction? We'll help you get started! Learn how to become a registered user, basics of bidding and buying online, and get tips and techniques you can use to get great online bargains.

Presenter - Carrie Hattan

Fees $10 m/$15 nm

Blogging

Wednesday, October 7

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Learn to create your own blog using free blog sites such as Bloggster.

Presenter - Joshua Berardi

Fees $10m/$15nm

Digital Scrapbooking

Thursday, November 12

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Scrapbooking is an art form—an expensive, painstaking art form where even a single mistake can mean the difference between masterpiece and utter disaster. With digital scrapbooking, you can go beyond the limitations of paper and cloth and take your scrapbooking in new directions. Experiment with design and color freely. Have flexibility to change your mind on the fly, without wasting costly scrapbook supplies.

Presenter - Joshua Berardi

Fees $10m/$15 nm

Shopping on the Internet

Thursday, November 19

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Get ready for the holidays! Learn about using web sites such as Barnes & Nobles and Amazon.com.

Presenter - Tiffany Moodie

Fees $10m/$15 nm

Word - Level 1

Wednesday, December 9

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Gain basic skills in this word processing program. At the completion of this class, you will be able to create and edit text, format text and documents, work with editing tools, use tab stops and work with clipart.

Presenter - Anita Wilkinson

Fees $10m/$15nm

Word - Level 2

Thursday, December 10

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Format columns, text boxes, use WordArt, create a table and use the table to use mail merge and create mailing labels.

Presenter - Anita Wilkinson

Fees $10m/$15nm